ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: Bright [C ii] 158 mu m Lines from a Multiply Imaged Sub-L* Galaxy at z=6.0719

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  • Seiji Fujimoto
  • Masamune Oguri
  • Yuki Yoshimura
  • Nicolas Laporte
  • Jorge Gonzalez-Lopez
  • Gabriel B. Caminha
  • Kotaro Kohno
  • Adi Zitrin
  • Johan Richard
  • Masami Ouchi
  • Franz E. Bauer
  • Ian Smail
  • Bunyo Hatsukade
  • Yoshiaki Ono
  • Vasily Kokorev
  • Hideki Umehata
  • Daniel Schaerer
  • Kirsten Knudsen
  • Fengwu Sun
  • Francesco Valentino
  • Yiping Ao
  • Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky
  • Kazuhiro Shimasaku
  • Karina Caputi
  • Haruka Kusakabe
  • Kana Morokuma-Matsui
  • Kikuchihara Shotaro
  • Eiichi Egami
  • Minju M. Lee
  • Timothy Rawle
  • Daniel Espada

We present bright [C ii] 158 mu m line detections from a strongly magnified and multiply imaged (mu similar to 20-160) sub-L* (MUV=-19.75-0.44+0.55) Lyman-break galaxy (LBG) at z = 6.0719 +/- 0.0004, drawn from the ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey (ALCS). Emission lines are identified at 268.7 GHz at >= 8 sigma exactly at the positions of two multiple images of the LBG, behind the massive galaxy cluster RXCJ0600-2007. Our lens models, updated with the latest spectroscopy from VLT/MUSE, indicate that a sub region of the LBG crosses the caustic, and is lensed into a long (similar to 6 '') arc with a local magnification of mu similar to 160, for which the [C ii] line is also significantly detected. The source plane reconstruction resolves the interstellar medium (ISM) structure, showing that the [C ii] line is co-spatial with the rest-frame UV continuum at a scale of similar to 300 pc. The [C ii] line properties suggest that the LBG is a rotation-dominated system, whose velocity gradient explains a slight difference in redshifts between the whole LBG and its sub-region. The star formation rate (SFR)-L-[CII] relations, for whole and sub-regions of the LBG, are consistent with those of local galaxies. We evaluate the lower limit of the faint-end of the [C ii] luminosity function at z = 6, finding it to be consistent with predictions from semi-analytical models and from the local SFR-L-[CII] relation with a SFR function at z = 6. These results imply that the local SFR-L-[CII] relation is universal for a wide range of scales, including the spatially resolved ISM, the whole region of the galaxy, and the cosmic scale, even in the epoch of reionization.

Original languageEnglish
Article number99
JournalAstrophysical Journal
Volume911
Issue number2
Number of pages20
ISSN0004-637X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Apr 2021

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